Abstract Papers of labor activist Ken Cropper of Portland, Oregon. The bulk of the papers relate to his work as a political organizer for Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 140, which represents custodians for public schools in Portland. These papers primarily relate to Local 140's dispute with Portland Public Schools during the 2000s, when the school board laid off custodians who belonged to Local 140 to replace them with contract workers from Portland Habilitation Center as a...